Welcome Ladies and Gentleman to the 26th Training Office Report! I wish you all a Season's Greetings and hope you have a Happy New Year!

It has certainly been a long while since I last submitted a report - my apologies. As some of you are aware, I have a very demanding 'real-life' occupation: over the last few months I've travelled to no fewer than seven different nations, many of them more than once. Nevertheless, I hope to get back into the 'swing of things' for the Christmas season.

Changes in the guard at the Training Office have begun:

• Captain Amadeo has been removed from the position of Training Office Assistant. He did some excellent work before he was faced with growing real-life demands. I thank him for his efforts.
• Major Drako, formerly of the Internet Office, has been promoted to Rear Admiral and appointed as Command Attache to the Training Officer!

The failure of theholo.net server - which hosted the Academic NeXus (including the Shadow Academy et al.) - has forced me to relocate all the Training Office pages. They shall now be hosted on my own server (with an emergency backup elsewhere) with the permanent forwarding address of http://to.minos.net/. This address will always forward to the TO website, regardless of the future domain I secure.

This server failure has also caused the DNS feature of my own server to fluctuate, once again taking my gmf@kweeky.net e-mail offline. To remedy this permanently, I have decided to change my e-mail address to keldorn@btopenworld.com. I am hopeful that I this will also remedy the stupid amount of spam I am receiving, however, my old e-mail will remain active (once back online) for at-least the next few months. I advise that all communications be sent to this new address.

It should be noted that the Training Office is once again accepting new Course proposals. Ideas, comments and questions should be sent to myself at keldorn@btopenworld.com. The Office is particularly interested in 'fictional' courses, akin to Galactic History, Physics, Imperial Politics, Starfighter Technical Studies and so on. As always, each sucessfully launched Course earns the author a Silver Star (or equivelent)!

There has been further talk on the matter of developing - more rapidly than first anticipated - a 'fictional' University-style institution to compliment the growing IWATS reportoire. Those of you in the Hammer's Fist should be acquainted with a similar system in use within that SubGroup. The Training Office is very interested to hear all thoughts on implementing something similar for the TC - and possibly the entire Emperor's Hammer. Comments should be sent to keldorn@btopenworld.com.

The Erudite Roll has been all but purged, with only Warrior Sirik Xirok retaining his position as Pontiff of Obelisk Phase II and Doctrine. Several members have already expressed an interest in some of the newly vacant positions, but, to ensure fair-play, any member is entitled to submit to myself an application for one of the roles in the Shadow Academy. As is to be expected, working for the Headmaster is a rewarding oppertunity.

If you would like a Course listed on your profile from before the split, send me an e-mail with the subject 'SA Profile' to keldorn@btopenworld.com. Please note that this only includes SA courses, and not general IWATS courses (at this time).

Applicants: There is a manual system in place for the processing of new members. Until otherwise notified, all applicants may submit both their Phase I and Phase II Apprentice Studies at their leisure, there is no need to await any confirmation other than the general ‘Welcome to the Dark Brotherhood’ e-mail (this e-mail explains the Apprentice Studies and provides the appropriate links). Questions should be addressed to me at keldorn@btopenworld.com.

• Academic NeXus : http://to.minos.net/
• Emperor’s Hammer Training Manual : http://to.minos.net/tmanual/
• Imperial Weapons & Tactics School : http://69.10.137.116/~ehto/courses.html
• Dark Brotherhood Shadow Academy : http://69.10.137.116/~ehto/sa/
• Dark Brotherhood Dark Side Compendium : http://www.ehpd.org/dsc/
• Imperial Senate Imperial University : http://69.10.137.116/~ehto/university/
• TIE Corps Training Message Board Forum : http://ehnet.org/mb/viewforum.php?f=34

• Rear Admiral Drako, Command Attache ("Number One") [rswojc@poczta.wp.pl]
• General Drake, Training Office Assistant ("Number Two") [Drake@EHNet.org]
• Sith Battlemaster Daniel Goad, Praetor to the Headmaster [dazexeter@yahoo.com]

Imperial Weapons & Tactics School Professorship Roll

• High Admiral Ari; Professor, Visual Basic Script [ari@tiecorps.org]
• Fleet Admiral Ender mBind; Professor, OPTing Course [mindb_ender@hotmail.com]
• Fleet Admiral Aiden Cantor Karias; Professor, Computer Basics [io@absolutek.ca]
• Fleet Admiral Bevel Leeson; Professor, PHP [skinner@axelero.hu]
• Fleet Admiral Marcin Szydlowski; Professor, X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter Mission Creation [pbmike@go2.pl]
• Admiral Proton; Professor, Squadron Management [hullbreach@warpmail.net]
• Vice Admiral RogueWing; Professor, X-Wing: Alliance Mission Design [roguewing25@yahoo.com]
• Rear Admiral Tomaas Banys; Professor, Linux [incomtech@wp.pl]
• Rear Admiral Locke Setzer, Eggdrop [KevinSetzer@aol.com]
• Colonel Master; Professor, Rebellion Tactics [slavelet@iinet.net.au]
• Colonel Philo; Professor, TIE Fighter Mission Creation [cnwilde@pacbell.net]
• Colonel Wes Janson, Active Server Page [eh_janson@shaw.ca]
• Major Lohr Zadash; Professor, ICQ [LohrZadash@isdrelentless.org]
• Captain Alec Qarni; Professor, AOL Instant Messenger [oneblah2@cs.com]
• Captain Ace; Professor, Flash [ace003_bla@yahoo.com.au]
• Captain Aeolus; Professor, JavaScript [zexipher@yahoo.com]
• Captain Chris McCollum, Graphics [ministryisadeity@aol.com]
• Commander Gandalf; Professor, TIE Fighter Tactics [delpieropadova@yahoo.com.au]
• Commander Tek Selkirk; Professor, X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter Tactics [tek_selkirk@hotmail.com]
• Lieutenant Commander Orrimaarko Reeft; Professor, BitchX [orrimaarko_reeft@hotmail.com]

Shadow Academy Erudite Roll

• Guardian Sirik Xirok, Obelisk Apprentice & Obelisk Doctrine [red_headed_rebel1089@yahoo.com]